In line with OSCE SMM’s mandate to establish dialogue and promote normalisation of the situation, OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug met with Mr Zakharchenko in Donetsk city this evening >>

Tusk: Meeting President @Poroshenko to prepare the EaPSummit. Sadly also a moment to mourn the death of veteran activist Vedzhiye Kashka and express our solidarity with the Crimean Tatar community and all of Ukraine. EU will never recognise Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea

The commander of the Russian Western Military District Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov has inspected and checked the readiness of a number of formations and units in Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk and Smolensk regions

Igor Kornet gives a press conference like he’s not holed up in a building in Luhansk surrounded by Russian Spetsnaz. Says actions are ongoing to counter Ukrainian “fifth column” that has deeply penetrated “LNR,” and friendly forces of “DNR” are helping.

Amb Y @JMTG_Ukraine in Yavoriv: A day before Thanksgiving, as American Ambassadorandas an American citizen, I am grateful to the proud Ukrainian service members who are defending Ukraine's future, and to the men and women of the 45th and27th [US Infantry Brigades] who are helping them

ATO spox: Luhansk sector - The situation was particularly tense in the Svitlodarsk area. In the second half of the day Russia-backed militants fired upon the Ukrainian troops in Luhanske with 152-mm artillery and 82-mm mortars.